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by T. B. (Thomas Bedingfield), and
printed in London in 1595. Heading
the showily engraved title-page, in
faint ink and old fashioned writing is the
autograph of Philip Fairfax, probably
the brother of Edward Fairfax the
early translator of Tasso, and uncle
of Sir Thomas, the royalist general so often
opposed to Cromwell.

Also of Elizabethan
interest is "A Conference about
the next succession to the
crowne of England: - by a Civil
and a Temporal Lawyer -
published by R. Doleman. Imprinted
at N. with license, 1593. The
object of this notorious book is
to show, that, as good Queen
Bess at her then age is likely
to die without direct issue,
the succession to her throne

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